Tag: Wyoming Cowboys

Though I am most certainly not one of the many bowl season detractors who crawl out of the woodwork every year, the stop-and-go nature of the bowl season's early half is somewhat annoying. The postseason began with a splash on Saturday, featuring five FBS bowls, and a sixth offering from the FCS. It felt almost…

Joe Tiller is most renowned for his tenure at Purdue -- and with good reason. But I will always associate the head coach with Wyoming as much as Purdue. Tiller -- who passed away Saturday morning at 74, per GoldAndBlack.com -- played a prominent role in my childhood college football-viewing experience. In the days before…

The non-conference schedule winds down in Week 3 for a majority of Pac-12 programs, and the league closes out with some fascinating contests. Five Pac-12 teams play road out-of-conference games, starting Friday night. Four of those are at Group of Five opponents' homes. Arizona gets it started at UTEP Friday, UCLA kicks off early Saturday…

The Wyoming Cowboys entered Kinnick Stadium this past Saturday afternoon as a dangerous opponent for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Sure, it was a Mountain West team against a Big Ten team in the comfort of their own stadium, but Wyoming was expected to give Iowa, and especially Iowa's defense, a big early season test. The reason?…

Welcome to The Third Phase, a new weekly column that dedicated to punting in college football. This column is specifically about punting, not special teams in general, although that still is significant in certain instances. We feel that punters aren't getting respect. It's time to show love to the punter! We did it! We finally made…

When Boise State joined the Mountain West Conference in 2011 -- the same year BYU and Utah exited, and one year prior to TCU's departure -- consensus dictated the Broncos would run roughshod over the league. It's been a half-decade, and Boise State has just one, outright conference championship. Meanwhile, once-sleeping giant San Diego State…

Fewer than two months remain until the 2017 college football season kicks off. The Open Man's Preview Listapalooza transitions into a Rankapalooza! Fans and pundits alike often lament the imbalance and other imperfections of nonconference play. Why do some Power Five teams go without scheduling a single Power Five opponent? Why don't the leagues have…

On either side of BYU head coach Kalani Sitake sat mud-soaked players, fresh off a 24-21 win over Wyoming in the Poinsettia Bowl. "The win is all them. They're the ones [who] are dirty," Sitake said. "I'm only dirty because they hugged me and they dumped Powerade on me." Running back Jamaal Williams joked, had…

Wyoming completed its first, three-game winning streak under head coach Craig Bohl on Saturday, beating Nevada on the road, 42-34. The Cowboys are now perfect since a Sept. 23 loss at Eastern Michigan -- and the Eagles might be the only team in college football more surprising than Wyoming this season. The Pokes' next win…

The Bowl Championship Series came back from summer break upgraded to College Football Playoff and had become too good for the American Athletic Conference. Since their break-up, the American loaded up with great coaches, began maximizing the potential of some of its programs, and has come back smoking hot. The Playoff didn't know what it…

LAS VEGAS - Wyoming defensive end Eddie Yarbrough is a rising NFL draft prospect, a 1st Team All-Mountain West selection and soon to set the program's career sack record. Eddie Yarbrough is also a team leader, a house builder and co-star in Wyoming teammate and running back Shaun Wick's series of Instagram videos. He can…

A variety of outlets are filling the 12 remaining weeks before college football season begins with countdowns of the best games, whether nonconference, intra-league or across divisions. Well, I feel pretty confident writing that in the sea of college football listicles, the following -- spotlighting the best Group of Five nonconference games in the coming…

It's becoming increasingly clear with each new revelation that those in power who forced the closure of UAB football had not interest in saving UAB football; facts be damned. The latest refuting university president Ray Watts and company is the release of a booster study Thursday that finds UAB football is actually profitable. Kevin Scarbinsky…

Block out your evening and prepare yourself for a night of college basketball binge watching. The end of college football season typically rolls right over into the meat of college basketball's conference play, and this week's lineup of games certainly proves that. Iowa State-Baylor is the only Wednesday night affair featuring two Top 25 teams,…

The Wyoming Cowboys went into No. 2 Oregon's imposing home, Autzen Stadium, and did something only USC in 2011 and Stanford the last two seasons accomplished. Wyoming held the Ducks without a first-quarter point. Oregon shut out in the 1st quarter by Wyoming. The last 4 times the Ducks were shut out in 1st quarter…